| Benjamin Barrera, Pedro Rodriguez-Parets, Cristiana Vega | 2015 | Master course 1 | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio | Professors: Piet and Wim Eckert Current statistics show that the population growth of Zurich continues without pause. Creating space for more than 80’000 new residents is a significant challenge; yet, it is also a tremendous opportunity in a city where land annexing is not under discussion, i

| Bonesi and Pappalardo | 2016 | Master course 1 | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio | Professors: Piet and Wim Eckert Introduction The City is a place for dreams to come true. It is a place for desires, opportunities and chances; for ideal, surreal and real encounters. We believe that the City is the ideal place for an architecture that chooses to embed itself within its contextual conditions rather than stand

| Daniel Gómez Masana | 2016 | 4º curso | Hochschule Luzern, Suiza | Profesores: Annika Seifert, Gunter Klix and Matthew Howell The request is to project a Turkish bath in the periphery Birsköpfli park of Basel. The main idea is to operate from the massive, with rammed earth as an archaic and organic solution, delegating to those mud walls the functions of being structure, envelope, climate provider and a place the